Had my porridge, set up the new broadband and my mouth tastes of blood; oh, yeah, baby, it's Spring time.

I guess it's another 'Milkshake Duck' scenario, but do you wonder what will come out if you end up fleetingly famous? It may be because I know of the person who played Willy Wonka at that event in Glasgow, but I'm seeing a lot of comments online about things like how he was dating a 16 year old when he was 30 and other seedy shit.

Tried giving a podcast a go, not sure they're for me.

>>463034
As someone who listens to a fair number of podcasts, this is a very alien idea to me. What don't you like about them?

>>463035
I just can't think of when would be a good time for listening to them.

If I'm cooking I'd rather have the radio or music on. If I'm working I'd rather have music on. If I wanted something informative I'd rather watch YouTube or even a documentary. I've no interest in a parasocial friendship.

It seems like there's better mediums out there.

>>463033
I was watching an old Charlie Brooker wipe, and it had that black dude who lived next door to a woman who escaped captivity, and said something like "when a white woman ran into a black man's arms, I knew something was up". There were loads of memes and he was on TV shows, then they found that he was not being honest about finding the kidnap victim, and also had criminal offences in his past. And he got shamed and forgotten about.

A few years back I realised I had a lot of not great stuff that could be liniked to me in Facebook chats, and took the step of removing myself from any situation I could become notable. I was on the fisherperson Society committee but was so scared by the prospect of someone in the shitpost group chat making public my use of the n-word and also whale poacheric/transphobic/homophobic language or my, at the time, fascination with minstrelsy.

I think being in a left wing circle is arguably tougher, because you've got right wingers trying to catch you out, but also the ideological purity of the left who will exile you for having liked an innocuous Milo Yiannopolous tweet.

Haven't been on social media since 2012, haven't had friends since 2018, I've only gone outside in the dark since 2021: no one can touch me, no one wants to touch me, I'm literally untouchable, unfuckable too.

>>463036
That's fair. I only really listen to one podcast which is blokes around some mics talking shit, which I think is the stereotypical idea of a podcast. Even that's actually quite well planned out shit talking. I don't know if I'd consider my feelings towards the various podcast teams at The Guardian, Richard Herring or the BBC World Service's Global News Podast "parasocial" either. However, I do think it's lessened the amount of music I listen to, which is a bit lame.

>>463037
When I went on The Chase about eight years ago one of the things they did was go over my social media to make sure there wasn't anything potentially controversial. It turned out one of the only things I shared publicly on Facebook was a post about Jimmy Savile when all the shit was coming out about him, which I had to delete.

I'm so glad my BRILLIANT teenlad phase pre-dated Facebook.

Girlfriend said she seriously wouldn't mind if I became a full-time househusband sort of thing, as she earns so much. I don't know how I've landed on a Japanese sugarmomma type thing (same age mind), but I have, and I can only assume I'm going to be struck down by some plague in a few years to balance the luck. (Although I won't be entertaining that idea, for many reasons, but still. Heh.)

Seen a couple of moths in my flat this week. Wiped them out immediately but I'm a bit paranoid now that by the end of the month it'll turn out I have an infestation.

>>463039
Did you tell 'em about us? I bet The Beast would enjoy coming here.

>>463038
If you have to go to all that effort to be unfuckable, you must be quite the catch. My female friend appreciates my close friendship so much that she will only fuck drug addicts, cripples, beggars and pensioners ahead of me. Get on my chronic masturbator level, you amateur.

>>463041
You don't really get to interact much with the Chasers. You don't get to meet them before or after, so the only time you really see them is when they're up at the top of the stage.

>>463038

>I've only gone outside in the dark since 2021

That's actually kind of impressive, how do you manage it? Do you work from home? If you're dolescum don't they force you out to sign on?

>>463044
I'm going to level with you, man. I had to work my spiel into the rule of threes format because just listing the first two things wouldn't be enough of a build up, so I made up the not going outside in daylight one so it would flow better. Trust noone, believe nothing, think of a third thing on your own because I'm spent for the night.

>>463042
>and pensioners
Well there you go, you've just got to play the long game.

>>463045

I don't believe you, you're just embarrassed now and trying to backpedal on it. Tell us your secrets, vampirelad.

I left the soldering iron plugged in in the basement for two days.

The iron is rated as 35 watts, so I guess it didn't use that much electricity. But still. Bit of a fire hazard, although there was nothing near it that could have caught fire. I don't have a regulator, so it was pretty much on the whole time.

>>463047
Meh. The tip is likely irrecoverably oxidised, but it was probably only drawing 10W if it's temperature controlled at all. 50 hours at 10W is 0.5kWh
New tip will cost more (especially if it's a spiffy RF Metcal unit).
Hard to see how it would burn the house down if it was in a stand rather than lying on the floor / bench / stained chair.

>>463047

This is why I love my JBC clone - it switches off when you put the iron back in the stand, but there's so much power that it heats up almost instantly when you pick it up. The tips last for ages, you can change them while they're still hot and they're completely unfazed by multi-layer boards with loads of thermal mass.

I did nearly burn the house down with a soldering iron when I was a kid. My mum unplugged something in my room to plug in the hoover, but when she was finished she just randomly picked a plug to put back in, which happened to be one of those old Antex irons. I came home from school to find that my bedroom was full of smoke and there was a big charred bit on my desk, but fortunately no real damage was done.

>>463049

Mine is a Weller, which are also good quality. I got an old Weller soldering iron from my dad, and it lasted 40 years. So when it finally broke, it seemed an obvious choice to get another Weller.

You lot are always talking about your soldering irons, but you never talk about actually soldering anything.

>>463052

Fine. I was soldering a speaker wire that had become detached from the speaker.

>>463052

I've used mine three times. Changed the pickups in two of my guitars, and replaced the screen in my old Game Boy.

I also have a multimeter that has come in handy a surprising amount of times.

>>463054

I've found that expensive multimeters aren't worth the money, unless you are perhaps an electrician who needs it to do very precise things. If you just want to see if something's got juice or not and measure resistors now and then, just get one for a tenner.

I fried my £30 multimeter when I tested the mains voltage on a wall outlet while it was accidentally still in resistance mode. Apparently that's always a very bad idea, and from then on resistances and voltages were all over the place, but for 30 quid, you'd think they could have built in some protection. And then I bought a new one for 10 quid, and it's doing everything it's supposed to do.

>>463053
One of my speakers is broken, and I discovered yesterday that the wireless speakers I bought recently are terrible. How would I fix a speaker? The subwoofer and other speaker are fine, but I know almost nothing about electronics. Will it be obvious if I open it up? Will there be a broken wire or something? Or am I going to need to recognise the difference between a blown capacitor and a totally functional capacitor just by sight?

>>463055

I think I stole mine from the Tech Help desk when I used to work at Maplin. It must be worth less than a quid. Going strong for over a decade now.

>>463056

The speakers themselves, i.e. everything that's contained in the speaker frame, rarely fail. You could have a broken filament on your speaker coil, which is almost impossible to fix. But if that isn't the case, most speakers have the speaker frames inside them and a bit of separate circuitry, i.e. a PCB board. You could check all the connections on your PCB for continuity. And most speakers still use electrolytic capacitors, which are often easy to spot when they fail, as they will either have liquid oozing out of them or they'll bulge out at the top.

Soldering in new capacitors doesn't need much skill, your main thing will be making sure you solder them in the right way with correct polarity. Which will be clearly marked down the side of them.

>>463052

I fix phones and laptops as a hobby/sideline. It's not terribly interesting; by far the most common soldering job is replacing damaged charging ports. Considerate laptop manufacturers will put the charging port on a separate daughterboard that you can just unplug, but sometimes they'll put the charging port on the motherboard to save costs or economise on internal space. That makes the job a bit tricky, because there's a huge amount of copper in the ground and power planes that acts as a massive heatsink. My iron puts out 145w, but it's still often safer and easier to pre-heat the motherboard first.

>>463055

Aneng multimeters are excellent value and will do the job very well for most hobbyists.

The main downside to cheap multimeters is that their input protection and isolation ratings are a total lie. They're fine to use on low-voltage stuff, but a bit dicey on anything from mains voltage up. Some of the cheaper meters will literally explode if they encounter a big voltage spike.

A meter from a proper brand (Fluke/BK/Gossen/etc) is actually tested to provide the level of protection and isolation stated, which is valuable insurance if you work on stuff that's trying to kill you. They can also be calibrated by a UKAS lab, which is irrelevant to a hobbyist or DIYer but extremely important if you're doing commercial work that requires a proper paper trail.

>>463059
> Fluke

Big fan of them when it comes to meters and genral electrickity, there's a reason they're often seen as the gold standard. Similar for C.K. tools if you want decent but on a slight budget or Knipex if you don't mind the cost and want the best. For some tools it's fine to use budget stuff, but the moment you touch mains voltage you really want the good stuff. Don't even think about doing industrial work with less, it's not just your livelyhood but your life that's on the line.

I had someone ring up today and they gave their name. And I thought "heh wouldn't it be funny if it's [name] MP". Then when I opened their account, the email associated was the MP's parliamentary email. The person on the phone was not this MP, I could tell from the voice, must have been their peon. But I thought I was losing my mind, that I manifested it to be the account of that MP. An MP I fucking hate. Like my inner monologue created the reality that I was dealing with the address of a bad MP, all because I thought it'd be funny if it was [name] MP. A pretty prominent MP. I kind of panicked because I never thought I'd have any dealings with this MP, as they are my enemy.

>>463069
What did they want?

>>463070
To pay a bill. I thought it might've been someone stealing the MP's identity, but why steal an identity to pay their bill?

Okay I've listened to the Private Eye podcast. Maybe I could listen to that every fortnight.

>>463072

If you liked that, you may also like:

https://www.podmasters.co.uk/the-bunker

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads

https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42KuVj/

https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/the-rest-is-politics

My water bill just came in the post and I've somehow used 10 cubic metres more than previously, so they're raising my monthly instalments from £24 to £28.

I did use the pressure washer a lot last summer. Then again, according to Karcher's web site, their smaller household sized models use about 250 litres an hour. I don't think I had it running for 40 hours to fully explain an extra ten cubic metres.

>>463074
Maybe you have a leak.

>>463075

I also suspect the washing machine. It's been acting weird for a while. Maybe it's time to get a new one, which would probably save water in and of itself because my washing machine is over 15 years old. Newer ones use far less water.

I forgot that Sunday is Mother's Day. Either of you two had any good feedback in the past on what to send at the last minute? My mum is a generic retired mother so her interests are the usual dogs, cats, flowers, pretends to know her cooking.

Might send her The Leftovers box set as she's also into the end of world prophesy shite but don't know if that's the right gift.

>>463074
Even before I'd class that as quite a high bill for water. I pay £19 a month for two blokes sharing a flat (no homo).

>>463078

How many cubic metres do you use annually? Water and wastewater prices can vary depending on where you live.

>>463078
Typical mother presents from me are: gin, something for gardening like new gloves or secateurs, walking socks, a book she's after (she's currently reading the DCI Ryan books by LJ Ross) or vouchers.

>>463078

A text.

Shite like mother's day are just bollocks made up commercialism rituals. The fact that everyone peer pressures you into it or else you're a bad son/daughter is part of that point.

Would they even still bother making Roses or Milk Tray if it wasn't for Mother's Day and Christmas? Probably not.

>>463081

Come on lad, you wrecked her fanny, the least you can do is give her a bunch of flowers.

>>463082

See? Exactly my point.

Pretty sure my mum's fanny was already was a wreck well before I came along. I definitely take after my dad.

My mother will be getting a low-value voucher and a bunch of flowers bought from the Co-Op by the bus station on the way to see her.

I normally get my mum just a card, and my stepmum a card and flowers. I love my mum much more, but she really doesn't like it when I get her gifts. Whereas my stepmum and dad are more materialistic.

Anyway this year they're both getting just a card. Can't justify £30 to send some flowers that'll die after a week.

On The One Show they just did an introduction for the Queen, but it wasn't the Queen. It was Camilla.

>>463086
They've even started putting the letters KC after the names of silks.

>>463086
Am I the only one who remembers that Charles finally married Camilla with the understanding that she would never be Queen? She would legally have a title of queen but would always be referred to as a consort. She even spent years talking about how she would never become Queen Camilla owing to sensitivities.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/22/politics.monarchy

Frankly, I'm starting to wonder if monarchy might be a little old-fashioned if we're just giving titles based on family connections.

>>463088
If they called her Queen Consort Camilla, that would be shortened to just Queen Camilla within a week. People really are that lazy. And I don't mind "Queen Camilla" since she's married to the King, but just calling her The Queen is completely wrong.

I suspect they just quietly changed the rules to avoid upsetting some clueless politician who got it wrong early on. Like how Charles always said he's use another name as king, and not be King Charles but King Philip or King Arthur nope or King George, but when THE Queen died, Liz Truss referred to him as King Charles in her speech so he had to go along with it.

>>463089
>Liz Truss referred to him as King Charles in her speech so he had to go along with it.
As if it weren't already bad enough that she'd just killed the Queen.

My conveyancers have said I can either sign up for their app at a cost of £42 or I can do everything via paper, which will take much longer. Think it's worth it?

>>463091
I do not think it’s worth it at all. But then, they might deliberately just not do it for months if they stand to profit from you doing it a different way.

I've had probably the worst, and most embarrassing, professional week of my life.

I have undone 2 years of good image and damaged my reputation. It's nothing that scandalous, I just got overloaded with stressand stopped functioning properly and feel very embarrassed.

Looking for some sort of story that it'll get better, or I won't care in a year, or something like that.

>>463092
Allegedly it makes the process 30% quicker, which will solely be because information can be sent faster than through the post.

I, for one, don't get the fuss surrounding Kate Middleton, nor am I inclined to find out.

Somebody's coming by to look at and hopefully buy my old satellite dish in an hour, and the house looking a bit shit, I've just spent an hour and a half cleaning the downstairs. I don't want to give the impression of an unkept house, not even to a complete stranger off Gumtree. But it needed doing anyway.

>>463109
Try as I might to not care about the Royal Family's day-to-day nonsense the idea that Kate Middleton edits her own photos is so far-fetched I now think she's dead and they're doing a Weekend at Burnie's kind of thing. Or an Emperor Numerian kind of thing if you're feeling all BBC4 about it.

>>463111
She never explicitly admitted to editing this picture.

>>463112
She has now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68534359

She’s blatantly pregnant. But they can’t announce it publicly for some reason. I wonder what the betting odds are on a black baby?

>>463112
Actually, you’re right; she apologised for the edits and said she sometimes edits photos, and Palace staff have said she did this one too, but that’s it.

>>463114
All sorts of interesting possibilities about.
One is that Wills has cheated, again, and she's had a breakdown.

>>463109
Would you like to read about the Oscars instead?

I wish there was a news site that never covers anything to do with the royal family, entertainment or sport. Nothing but a grown-up news site, with a hidden section for naked ladies. And it'll have comics too maybe.

>Kate seen after saying she edited Mother's Day photo

This is the top story on BBC News.

>>463116

She refuses to peg him. It's downright unpatriotic if you ask me.

>>463118
That's not a real ear. I don't buy it.

>>463118
>Hi all, look at the back of my totally-not-dead-wife's head! Doesn't she look well?

Just got back from the urologist. I've got another flare up of my prostatitis. I had bacterial prostatitis once many years ago but it resolved itself with antibiotics. But it acts up now and then. My semen culture this time came back negative once again for pathogens, so the urologist thinks it could be due to exposure to cold weather. Which makes sense because I spent all last weekend outside gardening in 10 degrees wearing just a pair of shell suit pants.

Prostatitis can affect anyone at any age. It's not just an old men's problem, and I first had it at age 23. It's usually caused by bacteria which can travel up your urethra either due to poor sanitation (a poorly maintained swimming pool can be enough) or unprotected sex. Especially anal sex, but being that that was never my kind of thing, you can also catch it from a lass with bad vaginal hygiene. And once you've had bacterial prostatitis one time, it often comes back. Either because a few bacteria remain dormant inside your prostate, or because your prostate develops a general sensitivity to cold exposure.

Symptoms include persistent pain in your groin between your arse and your balls and an overall feeling of lethargy similar to a cold. One thing you can do is take hot baths or anti-inflammatory pain drugs like ibuprofen.

Is Birmingham nicer than you'd expect or a total shithole?

>>463123
It's worse than I expected. There seems to be an unnecessary aggression about the place.

>>463123
I've not spent enough time there to tell, but it's got some of the most hideous buildings on Earth by my reckoning. Whoever designed that train station was a moron, whoever greenlit it's construction was a lunatic. Buildings with that same painfully late-noughties and twenty-tens look about them are all over the place, which makes it feel like Birmingham New Street actually encompasses much of the city, the same way the Combine's architecture was riddled throughout City 17.

>>463125
As a station, New Street isn't inherently the worst in the world, but some decisions by the rail industry have made it more awful than it needs to be. There are entrances at the sides, but then someone insisted that they needed an entrance from the Bullring. At the same time, whatever ATOC is called these days insisted on having ticket gates in the concourse. Because of some questionable decisions, there are now two separate gated-off sections, and the A end concourse is split in two, with passengers explicitly being advised to use the B end concourse if they're changing trains.

I will say the best thing about changing at a New Street is that with approaches from both ends being in tunnels, at no point do you actually have to suffer looking at Birmingham.

>>463123

It is fucking rough, yeah. I'm quite fond of it, but I do have a soft spot for shitholes.

>>463123
It's certainly nicer than anyone who has read the other replies would expect. I don't mind it at all. It probably depends on where you live now. If you're used to Manchester, it's about the same. Getting a train to Birmingham and then walking out of the station to look around for an hour or so is definitely better than doing the same thing in Bristol, even if Bristol has nicer parts elsewhere.

>>463123
I was quite impressed when I visited a few times in 2014. I liked The Square Shopping Centre it had a shop that sold a knife with a swastika on it, also other shops that had a very Leeds Corn Exchange (pre-gentrification) vibe. Emo/goth clothes and grinders and stuff. I also think the Waterstones is nice inside.

The only place I went out of the centre was Shard End as my then-girlfriend lived there, that was a bit of a grim shithole but not "no-go area" bad.

When I was at school there was a teacher whose arm had died in a car crash. It didn't wither away or anything so it looked like a normal arm apart from the fact it had yellow fingernails like a corpse and he couldn't move it. He wore a watch on that arm so when he wanted to tell the time he'd slap that arm so it'd rotate around in a full circle before he stopped it with his other arm.

I've not thought about this in 20 years. Is it possible for your arm to die like that? I feel like I've been very gullible as a teenager over this.

>>463130

>Is it possible for your arm to die like that?

Nerve damage innit. Most of the nerves in your arm join together in a bundle called the brachial plexus that runs under your collar bone and up into your neck. If your head gets wrenched away from your shoulder with a lot of force, then you can tear the brachial plexus and lose movement and/or feeling in that arm. For someone in a car accident, it's most likely to happen in a side impact - the seatbelt stops your shoulder, but your head keeps moving.

Won a custom limited edition Armored Core Xbox controller, only 5 were given out in Europe. It's not hugely exciting, but I never win stuff so I feel like maybe God isn't so bad for showing that I deserve a custom limited edition Armored Core controller. Not been shipped yet, I worry because back in 2007 I won a Wii game from a magazine and they never sent me it and have since shut down.

>>463133
I don't think competitions are very well managed on the whole. I finally won a flask in the Viz crossword competition after ten years of trying, the very month after I emailed them to ask if they were getting my entries, and I was so happy that it really took everything I had to email again when I didn't actually get the flask. I won something else from Viz a few years ago which they also never sent me until I emailed and asked for another one. And there's no way that an offensive print media publication which is still around now can possibly be worse-run than a videogame PR company.

Walked past a guy in town earlier that absolutely stunk of booze and cigs, like straight out of an 70's boozer. Been years since I encountered it.

Yesterday I had leftover lasagna for dinner, followed by carbonara for tea. My arse has seriously erupted this morning.

I know this lad who lost a lot of weight and now he just appears really gaunt. I'd really hate it if I put all that effort into improving myself only to now look like I have terminal cancer.

>>463137

I look really gaunt, but that's because I live on a diet of Monster Ultra and electric fags.

A group of elderly deaf people just walked past, signing at each other. I obviously don't expect them to be able to speak properly, and that's fine, but the laugh that one of the blokes had made him sound like a right mong. It was like a hiss or gurgle.

>>463139
Can I have your address so that I might come and murder you?

>>463139
I've heard that deaf people sex noises are full on nightmare fuel.

>>463141
Hey now, I have the greatest respect for the D/deaf community, despite any weird laughs they have. And the mong community, for that matter. We all love Downy brother just as much as he loves his ale and footy.

>>463139
>>463142
Deaf people arguing is something that the rest of us probably shouldn't find as funny as we do. How do you raise your voice while signing? With bigger, faster, and more aggressive hand movements, obviously. Naturally, when one party has had enough, they just turn their back on the other.

>>463144

About ten years ago I saw a deaf couple have a blazing row in the middle of Lime Street Station. Absolutely mesmerising. I'm still not entirely sure that it wasn't an experimental theatre production.

Thought I'd listen to Down with the Sickness for the first time in donkeys years. I'd forgotten how cringeworthy it gets.

No mommy, don't do it again
Don't do it again
I'll be a good boy
I'll be a good boy, I promise
No mommy don't hit me
Why did you have to hit me like that, mommy?
Don't do it, you're hurting me
Why did you have to be such a bitch
Why don't you
Why don't you just fuck off and die
Why can't you just fuck off and die
Why can't you just leave here and die
Never stick your hand in my face again bitch
Fuck you
I don't need this shit
You stupid sadistic abusive fucking whore
How would you like to see how it feels mommy
Here it comes, get ready to die

And that's why it'll be a long time until I listen to it again.

>>463147

I had the song on numerous times during covid lockdown with the windows open when I was still living in my flat near city centre. Some of my neighbours would give me a laugh and a thumbs up from their balcony, while others really didn't take the joke well at all.

F1nn5ter is transitioning and getting her cock out on OnlyFans and I am fully on board with it.

>>463151
I'm sure the trans community appriciates your allyship.

>>463153

I'd express my support all over her face IYKWIM.

>>463151

Why do they always have to spoil it by "transitioning", especially if they're not even going to commit to it and have their cock cut off. Stop trying to have your cake and eat it. I like a cheeky femboy crossdresser, that's spicy and kinky, but as soon as they start trying to genuinely be a lass, it kills the vibe. It's like they fell for their own prank.

tangent about trans bullshit incoming, read at your own peril

I'm really starting to feel that a lot of modern genderbending is more to do with people not being able to make peace with the fact that real life isn't a videogame where you can change character at a whim. The more online we get, the more people experience this dissonance and discontentment that their real life meat sack is bland, disappointing and mediocre.

I used to have terrible self-image issues and it's part of why I ended up being a furry, where I could build this alter ego that still closely represents me, but in a much more affirming way, no longer beholden to traditional expectations of human attractiveness or masculinity etc. If I had been born a few years later, however, and spent more time on social media and places like acrobat instead of the old wild west internet, I reckon I'd easily have become convinced I am trans instead. I realise some people don't think it's a fair comparison but honestly, the core issue of psychological self-image, body image, and dysphoria is the same.

The difference is I had to eventually make peace with and develop confidence in my real life body and appearance, because obviously YWNBAF; the escapism of an online alter-ego was just a helpful coping mechanism and safe retreat sometimes that helped me get there. Whereas trans people are encouraged to take the opposite route to a solution, and the community is dogmatically committed to pushing that as the best solution. This is why so many of them top themselves in the end, I'm certain- Self-acceptance is the very foundation of mental health, and we are suppressing it, if not actively demonising it.

>>463154
I've seen a few images of Finn5ster without makeup and .. they look a lot more boyish than they're made out to be. Still cute but it's a noticable difference. It really makes me wonder what attractive is - almost every femboy, crossdresser or transexual I've seen online has a noticable quality that identifies them as what they are, which makes it quite confusing for me when I wonder what I'm attracted to - the wig (and verious other trappings) or the person. It even happens occasionally with actual females - a lot of the time it's the clothes and general presentation that's attractive rather than the individual.

>>463155

There's good evidence that gender-affirmative healthcare reduces suicide risk in trans people.

Also girldick is deliciously squishy.

I don't think I'm as "into" transwomen as you lot are, but I do have semi-regular fantasies about fighting and possibly dying for ContraPoints while clad in full plate armour, so your thing is definitely more normal than my thing.

>>463155
>I had to eventually make peace
Why should you have to? In the nicest possible way, there's a hint of the "nobody helped me so why should I help the young people?" attitude you see a lot in Yankee boomers creeping in there. There's no moral reason people shouldn't be able or allowed to transition on a whim, to genderfux or to foxes or anything else. It's only a practical problem.
I say this as someone who has never had any desire to be any gender or species other than my own and no desire to fuck anyone other than cis women. If you want to be an attack helicopter, and have the resources and opportunity for it, be an attack helicopter.

Tbh, I'd love to be able to just go entirely feminine while still being a bloke. Just to go out in tights and a skirt etc with makeup and have no ody bat an eye. I have no desire to "be" a woman, but enjoy a warm feeling when I paint my nails and wear long stripy socks etc.

>>463156
>actual females


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMNiiS0WiM

>>463160
I have a feeling I'll read a post by you in two or three years talking about your transition.

Anyone who would oppose this is a misanthrope who just doesn't want us to have nice things.

https://gofile.io/d/QU2Fzg

>>463163

Great. I've got a no-porn rule on my phone. Now you've ruined it without warning.

>>463163
I don't think anyone here opposed it. However, I am beginning to think you just get off on talking about it. What I do take issue with is that what you're doing is the trans equivilent of a man calling himself a fisherperson ally or whatever because he "loves women's big tits".

>>463165

>I am beginning to think you just get off on talking about it

I am shocked and appalled by your completely unfounded accusation.

>>463161
I was hoping for a more insightful reponse than this but then again maybe my own post wasn't that interesting.

>>463166
Reminds me of Elise Ecklund.

>>463157

Isn't the suicide risk highest in the ones that go all the way through? Once there's no turning back, so to speak.

>>463159

Dunno lad, I think it's more that I am also able to empathise with how unfulfilling any hackjob surgery to give myself a tail would actually be. Like you say, it's entirely a practical issue, not a moral one- But it IS a practical issue, isn't it. And that "resources and opportunity" caveat is a pretty big one.

Maybe in another hundred years we'll have nanomachines and molecular genetic modification and shit and you'll be able to do what you want with perfect outcomes, but if that ends up being the case it'll also be a non-issue because you won't have people topping themselves over it, and nobody will give anybody shit for doing it.

>>463169

>Isn't the suicide risk highest in the ones that go all the way through? Once there's no turning back, so to speak.

That's why it's so important to give them proper counselling and therapy throughout.

I don't think it's because they all become victims to bullying and transphobic violence. For a lot of them, the problems come from within. There are some for whom a full transition is the absolute right answer and they'll never look back. They'll be happy undergoing both hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgeries. But there's also a few who may have gender dysphoria to some extent, but going all the way with hormones and surgery isn't right for them. They're just not realising it and they think everything will sort itself out on its own once they've undergone a series of irreversible procedures. Which can then become a real problem because you can't detransition to the way you were before.

Good psychotherapy can then keep some patients from making mistakes they'd regret. While also affirming others who really will be happier after transtition. It's not about gatekeeping, but about making sure that you as the patient will make the right decisions.

>>463169
>Maybe in another hundred years
Bit of a cart-before-horse issue, really. Transition drugs is a hell of a lot better now than it was a hundred years ago and it's only going to have the scope to improve if people keep doing it. Can't just ban it until the day it's simple and easy because that way the day will never come. People seem keen to get even the half-measures we have now so why not let them? Even if it does turn out to be a mistake for them, people have the right to make mistakes.

According to this video, F1nnster isn't going full sex-change, and isn't even changing gender pronouns (or at least not yet). He sounds like he's just taking recreational oestrogen, almost. He considers himself "genderfluid" and certainly won't be renouncing his boyhood any time soon. It sounds utterly mental to me, but I can fully understand considering it when you're some random streamer who isn't that interesting except for every single time you dress as the world's most convincing woman for bantz.

Anyway, my point is that the future, where people can experiment with their genders without a lifelong commitment, is already here.

>>463163
And his cock looks exactly like mine, which I find unsettling.

>>463174

That deep voice would be a dealbreaker for me. Probably even more than some squishy girlcock.

>>463169

>Isn't the suicide risk highest in the ones that go all the way through? Once there's no turning back, so to speak.

No. Depression and suicidality are lower for people post-transition than pre-transition and rates are lower still for people who transition earlier in life.

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/fulltext

>>463169
We are definitely heading towards that Star Trek / Cyberpunk future, but even then people will still find something to moan about.

I think I'd like a trans girlfriend. Would be a fun gimmick. I've had autistic girlfriend, black girlfriend, fat girlfriend. Trans is new territory.

>>463180

>I've had autistic girlfriend

How'd that turn out? I've heard that female autism is often mistaken for just a bit of general geekiness.

>>463181
She was hard work. I met her at an autism support group (I am one too). Her previous boyfriend had abused her, to the extent that when she was with him she concussed herself banging her head into the wall because he called her a fat slag (she was pretty skinny but had big tits).

She's really lovely though, I still talk to her from time to time. Just so sweet and earnest and awkward. A little bit manic pixie dream girl in some ways. Lovely delicate feet.

>>463181

I was with one for a while who was really nice and I do miss her in a lot of ways but on the other hand she was a nightmare to just try and live a normal life with. Apparently women are better at "masking" so lots of the time I could never tell if it was a spergy thing or if she was just being a bit of a selfish cunt, but at the end of the day I suppose it's the same in the end.

Couldn't rely on her for anything because she was so intensely avoidant and she would put her comfort ahead of absolutely anything or anyone else. I got the impression I could have been having a heart attack in front of her, and she'd have just let me die because it'd make her feel too anxious to call an ambulance, know what I mean? You can't blame them too harshly for it but you can't at all feel secure with somebody like that.

>>463179
>We are definitely heading towards that Star Trek / Cyberpunk future

A third world war and being ruled with an iron-fist by genetically enhanced Indian supermen?

>>463183
>I got the impression I could have been having a heart attack in front of her, and she'd have just let me die because it'd make her feel too anxious to call an ambulance, know what I mean?

I had to make every single phone call for my ex, and I had to do all the talking when we were out together, she was intensely uncomfortable with talking to anyone who wasn't her immediate family or her two (awful and poisonous) friends. I just went with it until one day she had a go at me because she thought I was being cold towards somebody who was talking to us and I realised what a stupid arrangement it was, she should put in some effort herself if that's how she felt.

I think I put up with it because during those years of my life I was mentally quite fucked up and began at that time to deal with it by being very passive about everything. Looking back actually, I think that passivity is what got me into that relationship, the "this girl is mental and doesn't really value me, but whatever, I'll just roll with it" attitude, I don't know if you fellow autistic ex-gf lads can relate to that.

>>463185

It definitely isn't specific to the autist lass but I have figured out I have a pattern of getting with girls who I feel comfortable and unthreatened by because they are somehow beneath me, not necessarily in terms of status or looks or anything specific like that, but just in the abstract sense that I'm not the one who's "lucky to have them".

It sounds awful but really I can't dispute my subconscious for it too much, because it only makes sense as a defence mechanism when all my experiences indicate that overall, lasses are just far less forgiving of your own issues when the shoe is on the other foot.

>>463183
>but at the end of the day I suppose it's the same in the end.
I am metaphorically underlining this in red and drawing a big arrow pointing towards it.

>>463188

It could also just be a natural product of the fact women very rarely date down (a phrase I don't like either but it's a frank description of what's going on) and usually try to find a partner who they can see as a provider and a carer. So if you're a perfectly average lad, then that's likely to be the trend. The women who are on the same level as you want a higher level of man, and the higher level women are writing bitter articles in the guardian about how hard it is to raise a child while being a successful CEO.

>>463188

> I have a pattern of getting with girls who I feel comfortable and unthreatened by because they are somehow beneath me, not necessarily in terms of status or looks or anything specific like that, but just in the abstract sense that I'm not the one who's "lucky to have them".

There's not that much wrong with that. Unless you find somebody where you feel you're complete equals, which is rare enough, the alternative is knowing you're punching above your weight and that there is a less than zero chance that she'll eventually meet somebody who can offer her more, and then jump ship on you.

I've been there enough times, and while it can make you feel good about yourself for having pulled somebody that you never really had much hope of attracting, in the long run it can just leave you feeling inadequate and small. The realisation that you somehow aren't enough for your partner, and then seeing the signs, can become a very lonely place.

Can't we just meet the future Mrs Autie-Fucker at a gardening workshop where we quickly make a good team and go from there? Call me naïve but I feel like we're doomed to play hierarchy games forever and not even the good games because hierarchy requires a tribe.

I'd guess otherlad just loses his estimation of women from getting to know them and feeling deep-down that there must be something wrong with someone if they love him. Same way we subconsciously massively overrate women who have no interest in us. But otherlad is wrong, there's so much he has to offer to a relationship.

>>463202

>the alternative is knowing you're punching above your weight and that there is a less than zero chance that she'll eventually meet somebody who can offer her more

I've been the exactly once and it didn't work out well at all, but the bitter and ultimately most painful part of it is that actually, I wasn't punching above my weight. She was a stunner sure, but as for all the rest of her personality traits and (lack of) accomplishments, I was definitely the "superior" one with my shit together and a decent foothold on life. If she knew what was good for her at all, she'd have known she was onto a good thing with me.

The only thing she had over me was looks, but ultimately that's all that mattered, because that's all she needed to go out and snag a bloke who could flash more cash and take her on more exciting holidays and buy her more indulgent presents. In the end I was only angry that I'd wasted my time on somebody who turned out to be that shallow.

For that kind of woman though, I am sure they learn the lesson inevitably, when their age catches up with them, and their terrible relationship history leaves them scraping the bottom of the barrel instead.

>>463207

>The only thing she had over me was looks, but ultimately that's all that mattered, because that's all she needed to go out and snag a bloke who could flash more cash and take her on more exciting holidays and buy her more indulgent presents.

Women have it incredibly easy that way when they're young. I'm in middle age now and anybody who's under 25 looks stunning almost by default to me. Not that I still fancy my chances. That would be delusional. But anyway, as a halfway attractive young lass, all you really ever have to do is give a smile and a wink to a guy, and you'll be able to bag him with almost no additional effort.


>For that kind of woman though, I am sure they learn the lesson inevitably, when their age catches up with them, and their terrible relationship history leaves them scraping the bottom of the barrel instead.

Except what a lot of women do is that they then raise their standards. The older they get, the less they are willing to compromise. While the pool of potential mates is starting to dry up, and the lads of similar age who are still single will turn to younger women. There are a lot of bitter 30something women who thought for too long that the flow would never ebb. They would nowadays be more or less my target age range if I was to start dating again, but there is so much sheer misery among them, next to all the divorced single mums with failed life goals, that I actually prefer singlehood wholeheartedly, at least for the time being.

Lads can you not make dating sound so scary please? Thanks.

>>463210
I don't do any dating; I just post here about how lonely I am. But all the women I meet in pubs now, where I would expect to encounter potential romantic partners, are severe basket cases. In the interests of equality, I will say that a lot of the men are too, but I think that's why pubs are closing. You won't want to go there if all the new friends you make are hopeless catastrophes and deadbeats. And I guess that's what I am too, because I certainly don't stand out as better than the rest.

>>463210

Dating isn't scary, at all. That's not a word I'd associate with it.

What it is is demoralising and frustrating. It's often hostile and deeply unfair, and you can't vent about it without some smug little prick coming along to insinuate you're a chronic sissify Tate subscriber. It's numbing, because you will only survive to make any success of it if you can completely turn off your emotions and sensitivity to rejection. The dating market, which women are arguably the most influential players in, is probably the aspect of modern life most directly responsible for any real Maritime Issues, and the sociopathic corpos that control the apps etc want to keep it that way to maximise their profits.

I suspect there will be another revolution when this situation gets bad enough to endanger human population stability, and then we'll transition to something like a Black Mirror episode where everyone is assigned their scientifically calculated perfect lover by Chat GPT.

But after all of that you get to eat pizza in front of the telly with a lady who lets you touch her fanny, so it's not all bad.

>>463212

I think the problem is that baggage just accumulates with life, whether you're a man or a woman. It's impossible to be as carefree again as you were at 16 or 20. We think we always move on, meet somebody new and forget about past relationships. But we don't really. Something usually stays, and that's the baggage.

>>463213
>then we'll transition to something like a Black Mirror episode where everyone is assigned their scientifically calculated perfect lover by Chat GPT

I bet everyone would be on board with this right up until the AI sets them up with a fat chick or some other untouchable because they're rated as a bit of a minger. It's the mirror bit that's the real horror.

>>463215

>until the AI sets them up with a fat chick or some other untouchable because they're rated as a bit of a minger

Most people are deluded about their own attractiveness and the kind of partner they can hope to attract. Some of them could use that kind of reality check.

Women more so than men, though. In our time anyway. Even the biggest munter today will think she deserves one of the top ten percent of men who are the most attractive. Blame fishing and the idea that every woman deserves it all no matter how unattractive she is.

I think men are a bit more realistic in that respect still. Maybe because we have to try more often and get rejected more than women, we have a more heightened sense of what kind of woman is attainable for us, or isn't. After being shot down a few times by some super hot women that are way out of your league, normally you realise that that's not your most promising target demographic. And in turn, maybe that's also why less attractive women aim for the top 10 percent of men. Because they likely haven't been openly rejected by enough of them, the same way lads get rejected.

>>463216

Little bit, women tend to be much more egotistical than men in certain ways, despite the classic stereotypes. But we have our part to play in it too.

Lots of men will shag significantly below their standards, and they don't even have to be desperate to do it, they'll just take the first reasonable chance they've got for the sake of putting their cock in a hole. The upshot of that is that there's lots of fat munters out there who still receive plenty of sexual attention, and it inflates their expectations- It's harsh, but they often simply don't realise it's coming from blokes who are purely after a bit of fanny, and likely wouldn't be seen dead with them in public as a couple.

There's absolutely less than zero chance of a lardy neckbeard NEET getting his end away with a supermodel, before hell freezes over. But there's every possibility the size 18 council estate single mum will get a chance with a handsome muscular lad because none of the other birds in his contacts were answering that night.

>>463217

>There's absolutely less than zero chance of a lardy neckbeard NEET getting his end away with a supermodel

Well if you mean a literal supermodel, that's less than one percent of the female population anyway. But you're right that women are less ready to "shag down" just to get their rocks off. Because the ones that would be in a position to shag down by having sex with you know that they'd be wasting their time and could just as easy find a far more attractive bloke to get in the sack with at the same time. But for men, the other way round, availability looks different. More often than not, shagging down will be the only way for us to get some action at all, at that point in time.

>>463218

You have to wonder, how different would these cut-throat dating economics be if men simply stopped being so horny. See how the dynamics shift if we just stop chasing. It's all supply and demand at the end of the day, we have to force a market crash.

Seriously now, why do I feel the urge to hurt cute cats? I feel a simmering anger when I see a cute picture of one. I don't get that way with dogs.

>>463220
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_aggression

I don't get the urge to hurt cute things, but I sometimes get the urge to protect them, and then I will be absolutely willing to hurt anything and anyone that even so much as poses a vague and hypothetical threat to the cute thing.

You lot are getting very weird as you hurtle towards middle-age.

Also I'm finally over the first day long headache I can I recall, which was hellish. Anyone who gets full-blown migranes has my deepest sympathy, because I am far too much of a chicken to cope with that kind of suffering.

Big Narstie has gone legit. What a world we live in.

https://bignarstiemedical.com/

>Are you looking for an exciting and dynamic Fixed Term contract opportunity?
Each and every one of you who says getting a degree doesn't matter is a fucking idiot.

>>463225

Apply anyway. "Requirements" in job adverts are just a wish list. Relevant experience will usually trump formal qualifications; lots of tangentially-related experience can be spun into relevant experience with the right gloss.

>>463226
You seem to misunderstand, the degree is what would prevent me having to see things like that. I'm applying to all kinds of shit. The point is having to read things like that is abhorrent to me on a fundemental level, but I lack the qualifications and skills to reject it.

I knew what I wanted and I screwed the whole thing up, so this is where I am.

The owner of the local butty shop has a very flash car. Maybe selling greasy food to tradesmen is more lucrative than I thought.

>>463228
I'm a pretty good cook and looking for work if you need someone to help out. My sausage, mayo and caramelised red onions on olive bread is basically the best sandwich ever.

>>463229
I think that's more upmarket than what I'm aiming for, but I'll bear that in mind.

>>463227

>The point is having to read things like that is abhorrent to me on a fundemental level

If you had a degree, you'd just be reading slightly more obtuse bullshit written by a slightly posher Karen from HR.

>>463223

>You lot are getting very weird as you hurtle towards middle-age.

Middle age will do that to you. You've been through enough drama that you know you'd rather chop off your right arm than go through it all again. I wouldn't say you become weird. You just become wary.

I remember thinking as a younglad that middle age must be hell because you don't get to go out to the clubs and party off your tits and chase tail anymore. Not without looking like a complete sad case anyway. But now that I'm in my 40s, I actually think, thank God for that.

That doesn't always make it easier. Your social life in your 30s and 40s can bore you out of your fucking mind between dinner parties, weddings, housewarmings, work related celebrations and kids birthdays. And the available single women you meet there are often human tragedies on two legs. But the best thing in life you can always do, regardless of your age, is roll with it.

>>463231
Wrong. I'd have a career in the field I wanted and I wouldn't want to kill myself on a daily basis, probably.

>>463230
Aim low and fail then. I know how it goes, I speak the truth.

>>463234

>I'd have a career in the field I wanted and I wouldn't want to kill myself on a daily basis, probably

The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can have the career you wanted but still frequently feel like putting a bullet in your head.

>>463235
That's why I said "probably". I made a sentence long reply and you still didn't read it through. What'd your job? I bet I could do it, Christ.

>>463234

What field do you want to work in?

Finding erectile dysfunction very annoying. New meds are causing it. I thought I'd be fine, I've had SSRI related dysfunction and that just meant it took me ages to cum. Now, if I'm lucky enough to even get it up at all it took me like 3 hours. The doctor did say sexual dysfunction was common and to tell her if I have issues, it's just frustrating as someone that used to like to wank a lot.

>>463238
>Finding erectile dysfunction very annoying

Do you know what I find really annoying? I thought I had the opportunity to post "Not as annoying as your wife finds it." but then you had to make it clear that you're a wanking man and defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory and I lost the chance to turn your suffering into comedy for my own benefit. So thanks, mate.

>>463239

You really shouldn't make fun of ED anyway mate, it's kicking him while he's down. You know, like, because he can't get it up.

Anyway Cialis still aren't paying me to say it, but fuck me lads, get some cialis. In fact fuck it, if they won't reward my hard work I'll just cut out the middleman. I'll do you them for fiver a pop, that's cheaper than Boots and you know it's easier to come to me than tell the nice attractive young girl at the counter your willy doesn't work.

When is the last time you used a length rope, and what for? We can include string, twine and cord for the sake of riveting coversation.
I've used string for emergency shoelaces. Occasionally I'll tie stuff that doesn't really need tying just for the sake of the asthetic.
Tying down loads to a vehicle is about the only practical thing I can imagine these days, unless you work with animals.

>>463241

I'd like to say "tying up a fat lass wot I met off of FetLife", but I think the answer is actually tying an old mattress to my car roof when I went to the tip last weekend.

>>463241
I used string today and at the weekend to find level on a garden project. I used rope late last year to try and move a tree I felled (that didn't work). Twine I use a lot of for tying back plants and other similar things.

>>463241
Yokel here, but only hobby stuff. String, rope, twine, cable, wire, hawsers, ratchet straps, slings all the damn time. Also hoses, pallets, zipties, tonne bags, wellies, mud, shit.
Currently trawling Amazon looking for some 8mm diameter slippy rope that'll be easy to undo knots in when the fuckers have pulled it tight / chewed it. Sigh, it looks like you deviants got here before me. I hope you enjoy your lubed-up fetlife heifer.

>>463236

>What'd your job? I bet I could do it, Christ.

I'm an estate agent. And yes, anybody could do my job. And they do. Which is a big reason why we've got such a bad rep.

>>463245
I couldn't. Fuck the public, and double-fuck them when they're all stressed and insane in the middle of a house sale/purchase. You have my grudging admiration if you're not an utter cunt, and are any good at your job.

KATE MIDDLETON HAS BEEN KILLED OFF AND REPLACED WITH A VAT GROWN CLONE OF LIZ JONES.

>>463246

What the job teaches you is frustration tolerance. Whether you're helping to sell an absolutely stunning five-bedroom suburban home or a hovel of a place in a less glamorous part of town, you have to expect dozens of possible buyers who are really just wasting your time and for millions of different reasons will never go through with it. I could tell you stories. Like that one painter and sculptor who wanted to buy a two-bedroom flat and asked the seller if he could pay half first and then the other half after hopefully selling off some of his works. So I asked, why didn't he take out a bank loan for the other half, but he said he "didn't like banks". Or somebody who seemed so keen on signing that he and his wife practically wanted to move in the next day, but then started actively ghosting me right that next day on the phone and on whatsapp.

The ghosting thing or people starting to make excuses is actually pretty common. It often happens when they realise that a property is beyond their finances after all. They never want to admit they simply can't afford it. And it's usually not even because they've found a better property elsewhere. So they tell you that they've decided they didn't like something about the property you showed them, or they say they want to keep watching the market. But you never hear from them again.

But the worst type of person is the nitpicker. Somebody who is genuinely interested but can just barely by a smidgeon afford to buy a house or the house in question, and whose finances will be crippled by their mortgage payments. They will desperately try to haggle down a few thousand here and a few thousand there. And they try to make every flaw and every minor sign of neglect look like the whole house is about to collapse or be condemned. But you'll never make them happy, and you don't even want to present them your client because you know it'll make you look bad.

It's a kind of job that teaches you a lot about people. You learn something new every day. But you also increasingly fucking despise certain kinds of people. Closing a sale is always a rush though, and it makes up for a lot of the shit you go through on a daily basis.

>>463248
The chancers, ghosting, excuses, nitpicking, that's well known to anyone working for commissions or doing contract work. It's hardly unique to being an estate agent.

Your unique situation is that you have to sell, to the public, something they want, need, and aspire to. For the most expensive thing they will have to commit to. Commiserations.

No disagreement on
> It's a kind of job that teaches you a lot about people. You learn something new every day. But you also increasingly fucking despise certain kinds of people. Closing a sale is always a rush though, and it makes up for a lot of the shit you go through on a daily basis.

Except: if what you make on those sales is big enough, then the shit is just what you have to wade through to get there. If it were trivially easy, you wouldn't have a job.

Every estate agent I know has turned into a massive racist from having to deal with Asians.

I wish people walked more. Cars are just everywhere. It's my theory as to why everybody is fat these days.

Just walking and carrying the shopping home for 20 mins a day would make the world of difference to a large portion of overweight people. Also we should tax the shit out of those 'coffees' that are basically just sugary desserts with a coffee shot in them. The amount of people having one of these for breakfast I see on the daily is mad.

>>463252

Russians are more problematic as clients, because of money laundering. That client base has died down now in the UK with the Ukraine War, but before the war, a lot of them were buying up property with very dodgy finances. For a long time, it was mainly centered around high-value properties in and near London, but they grew increasingly wise to AML laws and the investigative pressure that authorities were putting on the London property market, so some of them shifted their activities to buying up ordinary family homes in other cities and then letting them to other eastern Europeans.

There's a process you have to go through as an estate agent to vet clients and prospecitve buyers, and that includes asking in-depth questions about how and where somebody got their capital, especially if they are from a foreign country. Russia as such isn't on the list of high-risk countries for money laundering, but I dealt with one Russian buyer once who told me he would more than double my fee if I stopped asking questions about where he got the money to buy the house. I declined and told him that I couldn't afford to do anything like that. Technically you then have to put in an SAR report. But I was a bit worried for my own safety because there was something vaguely menacing about him, and I didn't. And at that stage, when it's not clear yet if somebody wants to commit to buy, you can just refuse to provide any more services to that person and move on. It's only when things get more serious and seller and buyer are agreeing on the sale, or are about to agree, that you risk conspiracy or aiding and abetting charges. Which you should avoid at all cost.

Instead of snacking on crisps I've taken to roasting chickpeas in the airfryer. It's probably not much healthier, once the oil and seasoning is taken into account.

>>463253
I love a good walk myself but I think some people lack the qualifications to walk in public. We should set up an organisation to stop people getting in the way or those '5-minute cities' we're being warned about will be total chaos.

>>463253
I love a good walk myself but I think some people lack the qualifications to walk in public. We should set up an organisation to stop people getting in the way or those '5-minute cities' we're being warned about will be total chaos.

What's going on with farmers, lately? This image apparently shows the road blockages due to protesting farmers in Poland. Apparently there's a lot of protests in France. I'm gonna assume it's something to do with Ukrainian grain harvest, but mine is the type of mind to include "you will eat the bugs" somewhere so maybe Ukraine is unrelated.

I prefer fries over chips, but oven fries are never as nice as oven chips.

>>463262
Ed Davey's problem is that he's doing the Keir Starmer tactic of just being the Conservatives, except he isn't even going to win an election off the back of it. I always used to see the Liberal Democrats as the party that optimists would desperately vote for, but now they're just NIMBY boomer wankers. I like not knowing which wacky third party I will vote for until I see the ballot paper, but the Liberal Democrats actually spoke out against building more houses, so I now hope the Green Party throws every last Lib Dem into their renewable Soylent Green woodchippers as soon as possible.

Fuck. I posted in the wrong thread. Sorry. For the record, I call all chips chips, be they thick chip-shop chips or McDonald's burger-and chips.

>>463261
The farmers in Wales at least are being agitated by Tory climate deniers against mitigation efforts. I'd guess if it's happening internationally it's related somehow.

>>463261

I'm not sure what exactly the relation and root of the issue is, but I think somehow it's got to do with the way farmers are actually very asset rich in theory but somehow still an oppressed minority, their power share is growing but governments are determined to keep them disenfranchised, the EU used to have a lot of agri-drama and we rocked the boat pulling out (farmers had a big hand in it according to some sources).

Somebody more intelligent than me can surely join the dots.

>>463265
The situation in Wales is a bit more nuanced than that, in that some of the grievances are legitimate. Effectively, the government is between a rock and a hard place.

The Welsh Government's proposals (not firm plans, still just proposals at this stage) for the replacement for CAP funds include requirements to maintain 10% of land as woodland and 10% as wild habitat. On the face of it, this isn't entirely unreasonable, since a sustainable rural environment requires both of these things to be maintained. But so far nobody's come up with a better proposal to make sure this happens than to enforce it at the level of individual claims - in other words, every rural business wanting subsidies would have to do this 20% thing on their land.

Part of the problem is that they need to do this, but it's difficult to see how they find a fair way of achieving it given the diversity of rural businesses and claimants. For instance, the largest claimant of CAP funds in Wales was the National Trust, whose claims involved more rural and environmental management than active agriculture. WG need to be more ambitious if they're going to reach the sort of targets they need to hit to pull their weight, but, as one observer put it, you can't really decarbonise a sheep.

None of this is to say that Tory climate deniers aren't doing their bit to whip up discontent, which they certainly are, but in this case they're not starting from nothing.

I went in for a brain scan yesterday because of persisting headaches that have been going on for weeks. They found nothing. Which is a relief. After asking me all kinds of questions today, the specialist's best guess was that it's my latent insomnia that is causing my headaches. She said I should discuss treatment options with my GP. But yeah, no tumour or anything like that. I was actually starting to worry.

>>463268
Thanks, verified this and was news to me. Thanks, lad!

>>463273
Congrats on not having a brain egg.

I've stopped drinking coffee recently and I began getting headaches. I thought it might be caffine withdrawal for a moment, but quickly realised it's more like 50%-70% of my water intake was in the form of coffee and I was dehydrated.

>>463278

Caffeine withdrawal can still cause headaches, especially after long periods of high daily caffeine intake.

>>463280
Yeah, but I just said it wasn't that, you stupid prick.

I do have fun here, I really do. I'm not even kidding, I love how daft some of you are.

>>463282

>Yeah, but I just said it wasn't that, you stupid prick.


Lad. No need to get pissy. Just pointing out fact.

>>463283
It's probably the caffeine withdrawal making him all antsy.

BAD: I am likely going to be sacked in the next couple of weeks.

GOOD: I just received confirmation that my appeal to Student Finance was successful, meaning I have funding for a new course and new uni in September, 4 years after I left my previous study.

Started working for a new company about 10 months ago. Didn't have a shit at work until three weeks ago, now I'm shitting every time I have to go in. I'm even shitting right now.

>>463286
It sounds like one of Limmy's Daft Wee Stories, where before long you'll be stuck in the work toilet forever, shitting endlessly.

>>463285

Well, time for a break between April and September then. What are your plans, lad?

>>463288
Looking for other jobs, preferably something part time I can eventually fit in with my studies. Failing that, bennies. Will have to tighten my belt for a few months but I went into work today and spent a few minutes staring off the balcony into the atrium and weighing up if landing on a table would prevent the nine storey drop from killing me. Generally a workplace that inspires those feelings on a daily basis is not worth sticking around in.

>>463289

Don't take my advice but I'd just go with the bennies and sack the job off as soon as feasible. I know exactly what kind of soul draining hell those workplaces can be. Some of the best times of my life have been when I was on the dole, like you have a license not to give a fuck and just focus on yourself. You deserve it, after all, you paid your taxes all this time right? So why not. That's what it's there for.

If it were up to me they'd make everyone do a new form of national service. Only instead of in the army, it'd be answering the phone all day in shitty call centres for Capita, or bottom of the barrel retail jobs. Everyone, especially future politicians, should have to do those jobs for at least a year, ideally two.

>>463289
Going on the sick before the sacking due to stress an option?

Sounds soul destroying either way, lad.

Incidentally, how do you leave a job? I'm known to people, but wouldn't say I have friends in the workplace. Do I just drop off my laptop and badge and fuck off without saying a word? Or do a Glenn from The Thick Of It and make a scene and slag everyone off?

>>463293

> I'm known to people, but wouldn't say I have friends in the workplace.

I'd say goodbye to coworkers that have been nice to you or that you've enjoyed bantering with, whether they're your friends or not. Nothing wrong with showing your appreciation that way.

I'm fancying the idea of an outdoor kitchen. There'd be a perfect place to put it here out back. But I don't want to go all nouveau riche and spend £4K on something that would probably only see very limited use for two to three weeks every summer. If that.

>>463296
>an outdoor kitchen

They're called barbecues, and you'd best leave it at that if you have a Wife and want to keep her.

>>463297

Barbecues don't come with a built in sink and a fridge normally.

Went to fix something at my nearly 70 year old dads place, and saw he'd searched "creampie Asian" into YouTube on his telly. I want to die.

>>463300

Be a good lad and teach your dad how to watch pornography. It's the least you can do after all he's done for you.

>>463300

This might be hands down one of the funniest posts I've read on .gs. I'm so sorry, lad.

Does he watch It's Always Sunny?

>>463300
Maybe he's just taking an interest in Asian cuisine. It's quite simple to make yuzu pie, maybe the next time you're over you could mention noticing the searches for recipes on youtube and that you could always do an Asian cream-pie together?

My dad is interested in daddy-daughter stuff. I guess he always wanted a baby girl to spoil.

>>463303
Now it looks like I made the bloody thing up. (I wish that was the case).

No, all he seems to watch is middle aged men ranting about immigrants on YouTube.

>>463305
I'm now picturing a battle between the Tories and Reform UK over who can come out most in favour of Asian creampies.

>>463304

I'm not sure why Wikipedia feels the need to illustrate creampie with a drawing. One of the oddest articles I've seen.

>>463307

Have you ever dealt with Wiki moderators? Perverts, the lot of them.

>>463308

I think they kept reverting my edit of the Spice Girls article once although I gave a credible source.

>>463309

For about a year I kept trying to edit to page of my old high school to say that the headmaster has a beard (which is factually correct and evident in the photo of staff members) and they kept deleting it.

Mr France has a beard. You cannot suppress the truth forever, Woodkirk.

>>463307
>visible seeping

So where do we stop instead of killing poeple?

>>463305
>>463306
What is it with the right and East Asian women anyway and is there a similar connection between the left and Black women? And while I'm thinking about it, why did the otherplace become completely obsessed with interracial sex?

I feel like something in our culture shifted when I wasn't looking, I'd thought we all just wanted to bonk.

>>463313
I'd be more interested to hear how you came to the conclusion that the antonym of an East Asian woman is a black woman?

>>463313

I thought it's mostly racist Yanklads who are obsessed with black blokes cucking them?

The obvious part for the men who like East Asian lasses is the stereotype/idealised notion that they are more submissive and traditional that western white women (who only know how to spend your money and then divorce you for a black man), so you can have a 1950s nuclear family with them, in order to own the wookies.

>>463314
That story of Corbyn and Diane Abbott shagging and him showing off about it.

>>463316
I think Corbyn is more of a chubby chaser. He has the look of a meek man who loves being bossed around by a fat woman. Either that or he's trying to cross off shagging every ethnicity going.

>>463317
Whatever his motivations no one here is in any place to criticise.

>>463317

I dunno. I would probably rather cut off my own cock than even be close enough to know what Diane Abbot smells like, but I can imagine them having better sex than you or I dare even imagine.

Think of it. Bony cardigan wearing hips smacking into those big wobbly black arse cheeks with the same sound as cheap Halfords floor mats against wet flagstones, while they're both high off their tits on 1960s indica weed.